The diarrhea is back. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Aussie, that is why real men take 6x as long to put beds together as women. Studies have shown it can take Australian men up to 11x as long.

Cute joke!

Rella, I was hoping that was a typo, to be honest. 15 years of cross-country trips, and never a wedding bell in sight? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Five years sounds much better.

Mom, if you don't hurry and come over, I am watching "Frackatoa" 'out you. I may just watch it today anyway, to keep my mind off the gurgles and groans. Who's afraid of some piddly little germs?

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Hi Aussie. I'm feeling like a flock of sheep today, or I'd be way more excited to say hi to you. Really, really ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ad. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> We have no water. The faucets were dry when I got up this morning and went into the bathroom (after I posted that cheery plan for the day--which, oddly enough, included washing clothes and watering the lawn). That's bad enough. But the kicker is that HP told me by phone he's coming home at noon and he wants me to help him pull the well pump so he can see what's wrong. Oh, goodie. Manual labor in the sweltering hot afternoon sun. My favorite! He must be mistaking me for that multi-tasking Wonder Woman from Down Under! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Has she finished the bed by now, A2? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> If so, is she available for a few hrs? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> Maybe if I use up all the emoticons, Mum won't have anything to do, either, and could help her daughter pitch in. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Sigh. I thought not. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Along with all these fire stories, let me add that HP burned up a field when he was a little boy, too, and has no trust whatsoever in small children around matches. Oddly enough. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Very suspicious man, that. And when we lived in Paradise when the kids were little, the US Forest Service had a "controlled" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> (haha) burn that got away from them and burned up a whole canyon of conifers before they could put it out. It was right near our house, too. It was very embarrassing for the Forest Service. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Loved the soldier joke, A2. I think everybody's thinking, "Tough guys, those Australians." And put a SMILE on your face when you say that, too!

t&l

hey I'm back. AW had to do a post she saved to someone and I get a foot rub out of letting her!! Generous of me wasn't it.

tl maybe you could "remind" HP that it might just need to be re-primed before he has to haul it up if you can do that without hauling it up of course.
AW usually says something like " remember you told me once that ..." of course she knows that I know that she knows thats BS and I said no such thing but by then couldn't admit it.
I told you we had fragile ego's.

hi ya Neak, AW said I had another sis now so I had better behave and watch my Q's & T's, I would but I dont know what they are. But sorry to hear you are suffering thunder down under. Eat chalk stuff and drink lots of water.

If I send mum over YOU take her shopping. Its like waiting for grass to grow, true. I meean if she wants it why wont she just buy the bloody thing? She says I have no understanding of the female pysche, thats just not right, ah whats a psyche?

Had look in at Mikey short while ago. Mikey looks cute when hes asleep and hardly ever cries hes always smiling. Or is that wind? not my department.

and as for fires that bush needed burning. Ya can't tell a woman I swear. the bush needs a burn at least once a few years or two.

I think its bed time, theres a trail of clothes going into our bedroom and a bird in the hand is, well ya know what I mean.

Hi there guys

how are you all? Did you get that pump up tl? Hope it was a simple little thing and not another major hassle.


I told Oops I mean I asked, Aussie to watch his P & Qs NOT Q & T's!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> men never listen.

Well I'm not waiting I've spoken to the powers that be and when Aussie gets home in December we are going to go to Kingston Barracks on Rottnest Island for 7 days. Beach, sun, bike riding, lazy afternoons in the beer garden watching the sunset.
Kingston Barracks
Ocean views

Just him, me in a romantic setting ......
......
......
.......
with
Mikey
Bess
JJ
Lady in Red (bikinis probablt this time)
Jonnie
Mum
Dad
Sis
BIL
Sean
Lisa
David

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

WELL I didn't invite them!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Wow, that DOES sound romantic. Especially with all those "enhancements" you listed. Hey, they can entertain themselves and take care of Mikey. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> That's why they're going, isn't it? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

HP bought a new pump today, to the tune of over $1,000. The previous pump is still at the repair shop, and may or may not be fixable, but he wants water NOW. Today. Can't say I disagree. That upstairs toilet really needs to be flushed! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> I guess he figures that if they are able to fix the old one, we can keep it around as a spare, so that when there's trouble we'll have a replacement immediately available while the problem child is disciplined.

My part turned out to not be very hard after all, although he wouldn't tell me what it was till it was time. Yesterday, at 2PM, exactly. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I just had to drive the truck forward and pull the pump and the pipe out of the well, while he made hand gestures telling me to go forward or stop, as the case might be. And then, when I got to the garage before the pump surfaced, I had to back up, get re-tied and pull some more. I thought he was going to have me out there pulling it up by hand, so it was a relief to find out what I was actually going to do.Honestly. Men. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

I had Pirates of the Caribbean dreams all morning this morning. Once, I got to kiss Captain Jack. Elizabeth was not pleased. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Sigh. I think something's wrong with my dream orderer, though!! Only one kissing, but twice, Davy Jones claw clamped down on my throat. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> So I woke up, just barely able to keep myself from being suffocated a second time. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Dumb movie.

t&l

Dreams can be so - so unreal.

Last week I dreamed I was being chased by space alien robots who were shooting at me and trying their best to send me on to my eternal doom, or reward - depending on your POV.

I kept getting away, but it got closer and closer each time. Lucky for me, my W woke me up before they could finish me off.

Your dream means that you have good in your life, but the bad has too much influnce on your thoughts and attitude. The ratio is 1/2. Lets see if it can be turned around. More prayer is in order. (We'll help.)

Hi everyone. I see Aussie is posting a little bit. He's good help for people - he should keep it up.

SS

The dream means I shouldn't have watched the dang thing twice, trying to understand the dialogue! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Nope, I liked SS's interpretation better. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I was a lot younger during the kissing dream. It would've been silly, otherwise. A little oogy, too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> But I'm pretty sure I was my regular age in the dying dreams. Analyze that!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Most people don't die when they are young. Even your dream self knows that. It has to make at least PART of it seem real.

Oh, but lets see - you are not OLD yet, just in the middle. Possibly it doesn't add up.

Do you sometimes feel old, and would dying be an escape, and a relief?

If you find someone to live the kissing dream with (and in keeping with the MB, way may I say it would probably be good to use your H) it would help to reverse the good/bad ratio. 2 good to 1 bad would be much nicer.

If you are really stuck for an answer, consider blaming it on the hole in the ozone layer. It works for me. That's why I'm overweight. That hole lets in too much gravity.

SS

I'd have a better chance of actually kissing Captain Jack! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Just a quick second, but I found this in my email.


<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

AWs mum is on! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> is that good news Neak? I do hope so.

tl I am sorry to hear about your homes water pump - thought I'd specify in case people got the wrong idea this being the feminine hygiene products aisle and some men just have to make comment <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> - I mean does the world think we - ahh - mature people are just made of money???

I just got our water rates and council rates bill - $3000 thank you very much - I wonder if I can do some supermarket nightfill work to pay for them? It not as if grumpy and I have ANY use of night time is it? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

The only Captain Jack I've seen in this house is Aussie's Jack Daniels bottles for visitors - he drinks it but not if he can get Irish. Urgggg like drinking liquid peat if you ask me <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

SS your reasons for having extra weight is just pure GENIUS!! It makes so much sense, its got to be true !! Why wont my weight watchers group go to people like you who have the REAL answers!!!!!!!! I mean when was the last time a dietician came up with an answer you LIKED????
EXACTLY!!!

I've been leaving the two gentle lovers alone as much as I can, picking up Mikey for the day - ok picking up is not exactly the truth - more like firemans lift!!!

AW had another day off - naughty girl - but its good to see family before work. When was the last time you ever read on a head stone " Work place misses him/her a lot" NEVER!!

They went off and did a good deed today. truly.
I dont know if you remember, but one of the SAS men killed a little while ago was the second husband of a woman, only few years older than AW, whose first husband was also a SAS soldier who had been also been killed some years before.
The second H was the best friend of the first H and for about 4 years after he was killed they supported each other & her little children and then found themselves falling in love. They both backed off - no there was never any hanky panky he was like a brother when first H was alive - well they found that hurt more than being together with the memories & guilt - aren’t we strange creatures - so worked through them with IC and finally got married.
They were very happy, very content.
Anyway when the second H was killed she just had to get away from Perth. Took the kids and went back to her mum & dad in NSW in the eastern states.
Well she just can't come back it hurts way too much so AW, Aussie and his mates and the other wives got together and packed up the house and cleaned it out and got it all ready for sale and sent the goods over to her. They finished off today.
I dont know about you tl but I dont think I could have ever entertained the idea of another soldier H in such circumstances. Braver than I.

AW was a bit quiet when they got home. Reality is a bummer sometimes. But they are back to holding hands and hugging for absolutely no reason. I thought I might have to peel her off him for dinner <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

I quote grand daughter "Oh mum go get a room for goodness sakes!! " hehehehehehehehehe <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

well they do look rather 'cute' sniggering and pointing finger <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Poor AW. Yes, I remember when she told us about that poor lady.

I called and the editor is gone all day, so we'll see what happens. If he gets my email he still might call later.

Neak

do hope its good news and that its just the start of the production process. I mean NO is so easy to say over the phone or by letter. They probably want you to write "Gone with the Wind 111" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
I can see the opening scene " Frankly my dear, thats not POJA!" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

AW is doing well Neak. In the circumstances. She has decided he is coming home come what may and thats that. She can usually talk herself into all sorts of trouble so being positive probably can do no harm. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I'll worry on her behalf <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I have read more of that article I asked you about and its rather horrifying and very brutal. There are no redeeming features other than that they survived by any means possible. Its very stark, it grabs you and draws you in to the absolute horror of it. its like they are talking about cutting their nails or similar. According to grumpy thats whats its like. Its plainly ugly. How can anyone face that horror again and again? And we wonder why many have injuries to their psyche, their very souls.
I have begun to understand why they all say you have to experience it to understand it.
To give these veterans respect and honour does not to me seem to anywhere near enough for what they sacrifice.
But I am so grateful for my grand children and indeed my children that they are out there. That Aussie is one is a source of huge regret and worry but at least he is very good so his chances are so much better - see I can talk myself into most things too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Anyway lets talk about happy things . what happened on the camping trip????????? I'm dying to know what the Dervish thought of the whole experience. I just bet he LOVED it. He's real little boy that one !! just gorgeous <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Neak, when you talk to them don't agree to let them gut the angels from the book, if that's a condition of publication. Self-publishing, even without the backing of a publishing house, is better than that! Why religious people are so nervous about angels is a mystery to me... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Yes, we have water. Thanks to HP, who will now have to be repeatedly thanked and admired for the rest of his natural days for his cleverness and manly efforts. You think I'm kidding. HA! In just a few minutes I'm taking a celebratory shower with hair wash, too! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Then I'm going to wash clothes and water the lawn for the rest of the day. I'm very excited about it. Really. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Quite frankly, the lawn was not best served by having no water for 3 days in the heat of July. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> The soil around here is shallow, and there's a layer of hard pan only a little ways down, so everything dries out very quickly. But we have water now. Whee. I would've been such a bad pioneer woman. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

P.S. I read all that soldier stuff, and today (for some reason) it's very hard for me to wrap my mind around it. But I didn't ignore it, even if I feel the need right now to insulate myself from it. I'm sorry, AWMum, because I know that you can't, since you're there and they're your chicks, and even if you can't endure it you can't back away from it. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Prayers for you all.

I'd have a better chance of actually kissing Captain Jack!

Gosh, kissing can be so much fun. I feel bad about that.

Dogs kiss me all the time, but I never return the favor. Just a personal thing.........


One of these days, I need to have a talk with you about that. (not kissing dogs - the other, before that.)

It's good to know A, and AW are spending qualithy time together.

My W and I are separated right now. Really.
She's at Girls camp, and I am at home.
Glad it's just temporary. I'm always glad when I see her again.

Yes, we have water. Thanks to HP, who will now have to be repeatedly thanked and admired for the rest of his natural days for his cleverness and manly efforts. You think I'm kidding. HA! In just a few minutes I'm taking a celebratory shower with hair wash, too! Then I'm going to wash clothes and water the lawn for the rest of the day. I'm very excited about it. Really. Quite frankly, the lawn was not best served by having no water for 3 days in the heat of July. The soil around here is shallow, and there's a layer of hard pan only a little ways down, so everything dries out very quickly. But we have water now. Whee.

I'm glad the water is back on. I was out weeding the garden early this morning, and I was kind of thinking about things like this.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I tend to take some things for granted. Water is one of them. We turn the tap, and it comes out, all clean, and nice. My grandmother tells the story about when piped water came to our community. Before that, everyone would go out in the early morning and scoop water from the ditch into a barrel to use in their home durning the day. After 8:00 am, everyone was expected to have the water they needed set aside, then they would let the animals out to drink in the ditch. Of course, the water would be cloudy the rest of the day. After piped water was introduced to the homes the sickness rate went way down. I wonder why?

Anyway, I was thinking about hardship. We hate it, but it enables me to really be thankful for things I otherwise might take for granted.

Would we appreciate the good without the bad?

Water without times of no water?
Peace without war?
Freedom from debt, without the debt we once owed?

The list could go on and on.
It's good for me to work outside in the yard, and think. I was more thankful in my prayers this morning, after my pondering in the garden.

Neak, I hope this book works for you.

AJ should be really thankful. He almost lost everything important, but he didn't. I hope he never forgets ever again what is most important.

IN the last week, I have read three C&H books. It's so good to laugh. I could have send many pages to Neak as an example of what to expect from small boys. However, by now, she probably knows most of them by heart. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I'm still looking in some used book stores for the stories aobut a boys first knife, and hatchet. Even if it takes me a while, it's a very humorous read, and teaches valueable parenting skills.

I would've been such a bad pioneer woman.

I expect not. I expect you would have prayed for help, then gone out and done what was needed. I don't think it is in you to live any other way.

SS

No, you don't! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> I'm not a big fan (or even a little fan) of dream analysis. Most of the time it seems way too subjective to me, with dream componnents meaning whatever the analyzer of the moment wants them to mean. However, this dream, short as it was--and the kissing was just a snippet of the fragment--is making me more uncomfortable the longer I think about it. (Solution? Quit thinking about it!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) In a dream which couldn't have lasted more than a minute, the surprise scenario (in which, let me state clearly, no sex was involved) went straight to the heart of issues I don't ordinarily even acknowledge that I have. I mean, I know I have them, but I don't visit them for tea, cookies, and conversation. EVER. Having them resurface was like having the Kraken rise up from the depths and say, "Boo." But without all the slime, thank goodness. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> I say, let them remain repressed like they're supposed to be. If my psyche is a country, I'm the repressive dictator, and what I say goes. So there.

Now, if I could just get that blasted dream out of my head...<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />



Yes, it is. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />



I suppose you're right, but that can't stop me from being really, really glad I don't have to. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Now may not be the time, but maybe some day.......
Camping trips are good for that.
So are road trips.

BTW, I don't claim to KNOW what your dreams are/were about. I was only putting out possibllities for general discussion purposes. You already know that, I just wanted to be clear, for the record.

So, how bout Neaks book?
Wouldn't it be cool to have it published by year end this year?

SS

OK, one more comment. (for now, I reserve the right to bring this up again, unless you tell me to leave it alone and you really mean it.)

Perhaps your inner self wants the close relationship that kissing symbolizes. Think on that one a little bit.

That you are bothered by it, and can't get it out of your mind might be telling us something too.

If this were me when I was small, my mother would say "If you have so much spare time to think about this all day long, I have some work for you to keep you busy. Come here, let me show you want I want you to do......... "

Teasing aside - maybe it's time to revisit MI thoughts.
(marriage improvement)

I should do some work. See you later.

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